00:00:00.000Hey everybody, on this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, a conversation brought to you by Turning Point Action, our political arm, tpaction.com.
00:00:08.000That is tpaction.com, of three stellar young candidates who are getting involved on the grassroots level to run for office.
00:00:16.000Anthony Sabatini, Caroline Levitt, and Anna Paulina Luna.
00:00:21.000That is Caroline Levitt, Anna Paulina, and Anthony Sabatini.
00:01:01.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:09.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:22.000So how many people here want to run for office one day?
00:01:27.000So this entire afternoon is brought to you by Turning Point Action.
00:01:31.000And at Turning Point Action, we endorse young, courageous conservatives that are running for office that we believe are going to go to Washington, D.C. and make a serious difference.
00:01:42.000We endorsed Blake Masters in the great state of Arizona.
00:01:48.000And we have also endorsed these terrific two young patriots here from New Hampshire and from the great state of Florida, Caroline Levitt and Anthony Sabatini, who I want to make sure you have an opportunity to meet both of these amazing young patriots, hear about them, hear about what they're doing and what they seek to change in Washington, D.C. Caroline, you go first.
00:02:32.000I'm running in my home district, New Hampshire's first congressional district.
00:02:35.000I grew up there in a small business family, went to college there, went to school there.
00:02:40.000Then I had the blessing of serving our greatest president in the history of our country, President Donald J. Trump in his White House for the best secretary of all time, Kaylee McInani.
00:02:57.000So we fought on the front lines against the fake news media that was attacking our president every single day, attacking all of us in this room for believing in him.
00:03:08.000And after that fight, after seeing what happened with the 2020 election, watching the Democrat regime rip it away from us out of our hands, I decided to step up and do something about it.
00:03:44.000I'm a Donald Trump Ron DeSantis Republican for the last four years.
00:03:48.000And currently, I'm a member of the Florida House of Representatives, where I've helped pass the boldest state agenda in the nation, the Ron DeSantis Freedom Agenda here in Florida.
00:03:58.000It's been the honor of my lifetime, and now I'm running for a new seat that thanks to Governor DeSantis, we have right here in North Orlando, not too far from here.
00:04:05.000And I'm going to be bringing the America First agenda to Congress to make sure we actually do what Donald Trump ran on.
00:04:11.000Not the empty suit Republicans who are killing our bold conservative reforms, but get people in there who are going to do things like finish the wall and do what we did here in Florida, completely and totally ban critical race theory in the country.
00:04:24.000It's racist, it's evil, it needs to be defeated.
00:04:27.000So, Anthony, what are some of the policies you think we need to focus on?
00:04:30.000It seems as if so many people feel let down when Republicans go to Congress.
00:04:35.000What needs to be the legislative agenda when this new Congress convenes in January?
00:04:40.000Well, I think the first thing we need to focus on is the most imminent threat, which is this corporate tyranny and this corporate wokeism that we're seeing all around us.
00:04:47.000This wokeism is taking over every institution.
00:04:50.000And it's actually very easily defeated if you get the policies right.
00:04:53.000We got to de-woke the military, ban critical race theory and gender ideology in the military.
00:04:58.000But you got to do it in the private sector, too.
00:05:00.000We've done it in Florida, Florida passed the biggest, most robust anti-CRT law in the country.
00:05:04.000And we could bring that to the national level.
00:05:06.000You know, if you go to work at a company, they shouldn't be telling you, you know, in the HR department, et cetera, that you should have white guilt and all this nonsense.
00:05:14.000And so we need federal legislation to ban that racist practice.
00:05:18.000And I think that is something that we can do really quickly to stop this woke revolution in its tracks.
00:05:23.000So Caroline, what do you think needs to be the top priority for this upcoming session?
00:05:29.000Because it looks like there's going to be a big change of power.
00:05:32.000What do you think needs to be the mandate?
00:05:34.000First and foremost, we need to stop the illegal invasion that is taking place on our southern border right now.
00:05:44.000We need to finish the construction of the border wall, which we've already largely paid for, by the way, the tax dollars.
00:05:50.000And this president is allowing those resources to rot away at the southern border.
00:05:54.000Now, I'm from New Hampshire, as I said, I'm running.
00:05:56.000So we don't see the human impact of this invasion so much as other states on our southern border, but we do see it in the unprecedented amount of fentanyl and illegal drugs that are pouring into communities across the great state of New Hampshire right now.
00:06:10.000So it is my goal as a young congresswoman, because this is the number one threat that our generation, my generation, faces.
00:06:17.000It's the number one leading cause of death in America today is overdoses.
00:06:23.000I remember throughout the entire pandemic, right, when all of the media sites had a tracker for all of the COVID deaths.
00:06:29.000Where's the tracker on every single mainstream media network in this country for the amount of people that are putting drugs in their arms and dying because of this president?
00:06:37.000So we have to shut down the border, build the wall, end catch and release, and always vote against amnesty at all costs.
00:06:44.000And by the way, if you come here illegally, if that's your first encounter with our great country, you're going to be sent home, period.
00:06:53.000Now, Anthony, it seems as if the Republicans in Washington, D.C., they're more focused on trying to fix the border of Ukraine than our own border, sending $56 billion, which is the GDP of North Dakota already to Ukraine.
00:07:10.000If you were to be elected, do you think that you would vote for sending $56 billion to Ukraine?
00:07:17.000Why is it the Republican Party so fixated on that?
00:07:20.000Well, I think there's a lot of the old guards still in the Republican Party who don't understand the America First policies that got Donald Trump elected and that have renewed and made the Republican Party great again.
00:07:29.000It's time to get people in office who believe that we should only be involved in foreign affairs and foreign interventions if there's a direct and imminent threat on Americans.
00:07:37.000If there's no real direct threat, we don't have the time or the resources to go around the world looking for monsters to destroy.
00:08:02.000You know, young people, this is going to be the most pro-life generation in history.
00:08:08.000And do you believe that the Republican Party should have a bold agenda when it comes to family, or should we just talk about tax cuts and whatever else the Republican Party focuses on?
00:08:20.000We have to go on offense with the issues of our time, which is the culture war.
00:08:26.000The left has been waging a culture war in our country for decades, and conservatives, I put them in quotes, conservatives have not conserved anything.
00:08:35.000We have Republicans in office right now who are not even up there defending on Capitol Hill the most basic inherent value that we not only hold as Americans, but as human beings, is that men and women are different but equal.
00:08:48.000And I am a woman, by the way, to any of the Democrats that are watching this, tracking me, trying to get opposition research for my campaign.
00:08:55.000But we as conservatives have to fundamentally preserve and protect the traditional social values that make this the greatest country in the history of the world.
00:09:04.000The left has been waging this war for decades.
00:09:07.000They have seized every institution in our country to do it.
00:09:10.000Public education systems with these woke liberal teachers pushing this indoctrination in our classrooms.
00:09:16.000The corrupt higher education university that is then doubling down.
00:09:22.000Every single institution in this country is pushing Marxism down the throats of our young people, stripping our nation of masculinity and family values that are the bedrock of our society.
00:09:41.000You know, we need to, you know, this gender ideology is going to destroy the family.
00:09:45.000You destroy the family, the whole society is gone.
00:09:47.000That is literally the center of everything.
00:09:50.000And so, you know, getting Republicans to take the pledge to push back on what the EEOC and other agencies have done to stuff gender ideology into the private sector has got to be a top priority.
00:10:03.000Because I'm telling you, if you lose the family, all we have is the state and the individual.
00:10:07.000And that's basically the recipe of Marxism and extreme socialism.
00:10:12.000So Caroline, a lot of young people are wondering kind of where they should go politically.
00:10:18.000As I mentioned yesterday, this generation is the most, unfortunately, most depressed, the most suicidal, the most drug-addicted, the most alcohol-addicted generation in history.
00:10:29.000There's a lot of young people that are suffering right now.
00:10:31.000And I believe largely because there's been an intergenerational kind of crusade, if you will, a betrayal of the promise to create a freer America through lockdowns, vaccine mandates, mask mandates.
00:10:44.000What is necessary to win over younger voters?
00:10:47.000If you were to become a member of Congress, you would be the youngest ever.
00:10:55.000So if you were to win, what is required to win over the next generation that is more cynical, more addicted to their screens, and addicted to drugs than ever before?
00:11:07.000Well, when we win this race, Charlie, not if.
00:11:10.000When we win this election this fall, thank you very much.
00:11:14.000We will make every effort, as I already am on my campaign, to reach out to young people.
00:11:20.000And there's no more effective way to do that.
00:11:25.000We have to throw ourselves into the lion's den, as you have with your organization, Turning Point USA.
00:11:31.000Go to these college campuses, go to these high schools, reach out to young people.
00:11:35.000There's never been a better time to do it because we as young Americans are facing the very devastating and very real consequences of this socialist agenda in Washington, D.C. With skyrocketing inflation, gas prices higher than they've ever been in our lifetime as Generation Z Americans.
00:11:56.000I'm renting, can't afford to buy a home in New Hampshire right now because these markets are insane.
00:12:00.000These are real consequences of this socialist spending spree in D.C. Reaching out to young people with in-person conversations, meeting them where they are on social media and speaking truth.
00:12:09.000That's how we're going to get through to them.
00:12:10.000And Caroline, you just admitted something which is important, which a lot of older Americans say, oh, just work harder.
00:12:15.000Go buy a piece, go buy a piece of property or a home.
00:12:41.000And then by the time we reopen America, everything is two or three times more expensive in the housing market.
00:12:47.000Anthony, do you think that the Republican Party should be talking about the fact that BlackRock and the CCP are coming in and buying single-family homes for that young people can't buy them?
00:12:59.000I think it should be a staple of the Republican Party.
00:13:02.000Stop talking about the abstractions and start talking about the realistic.
00:13:05.000We have hegemonic woe corporations which are hoarding power, hoarding money, and stealing the dream of the middle class.
00:13:11.000You know, people are more miserable, like you said.
00:13:14.000Because the left has destroyed the country.
00:14:41.000Now, I hope you all understand this, though, that we applaud for these lines.
00:14:46.000Your Republicans right now in Washington, D.C., when I ask them this, sometimes when they come on the show, I say, oh, I have to get back to you on that.
00:14:54.000I ask them, I say, do you think the Chinese Communist Party should be able to own farmland?
00:15:22.000It's because for far too long, our party has embraced and elected establishment Republicans who are paid for by the wrong people.
00:15:29.000I am proud to be in my race supported by the people of New Hampshire, patriots across this country.
00:15:34.000And those are the types of folks that we need to elect who are not going down to Washington to make friends, but to stand up for the needs of their constituents and then go the hell home because we need term limits as well, by the way.
00:15:59.000I get angry at a fundamental level when Republicans who have political power allow the abuse of our beautiful country to continue while they keep on getting our votes and our dollars and they allow this country to crumble.
00:16:18.000The Republican Party needs to be put on notice that every one of these people are going to be primary to replace sometime soon.
00:16:25.000So Ana, why is it Republicans are okay with people in active military to be discharged if they don't take an experimental gene therapy that they call a vaccine?
00:16:33.000Because these people don't have skin in the game.
00:16:36.000I can tell you there's people here today to include my husband that got out of military because they stood for their religious freedom and we need to honor that in our U.S. military.
00:16:50.000Now, when you guys are traveling in your areas of when you're campaigning, what are the issues that you are hearing the most from your constituents?
00:17:00.000First and foremost, election integrity.
00:17:03.000That is the number one issue, and that needs to be a major part of the Republican Party's platform when we take back the House this year.
00:17:10.000We need people to trust that their votes matter, and we need to fight with every inch of our body to push back against federal election steals.
00:17:18.000No coincidence, right, that Nancy Pelosi, the first piece of policy that she introduced with this new Congress was HR1, which is a federal radical steal of our elections.
00:17:29.000And there's Republicans at the state, local, and federal level that are enabling that.
00:17:33.000We need to ensure election integrity, or none of these other issues that do matter will matter at the end of the day if our votes don't count.
00:17:40.000Inflation, gas prices, none of it matters if we don't have election integrity.
00:17:45.000I would say right now, it's this general sense of the decline of the rule of law, the rise of administrative law, this agency throughout the country like the FBI declaring war on the American people, telling parents they're domestic terrorists, this sort of thing.
00:18:00.000You know, institutions that the left has captured and then turned on the American people.
00:18:05.000So the Republicans need to turn all of our committees in Congress into an oversight function, like my good friend Congressman Gates says, and literally root out and destroy the corruption in the Biden administration because they've destroyed our institutions and destroyed people's belief in government.
00:18:19.000I think that's an existential threat to the country, Ana.
00:18:22.000I'd have to say it's American energy independence right now.
00:19:41.000And I can tell you, every single one of you here could be on this stage.
00:19:44.000Keep working hard, fight, and never give up.
00:19:49.000I would say the single most important piece of advice I can give you is just take that first step.
00:19:53.000Become a pre-SIC man or a pre-SIC woman or go work in a campaign of a candidate that you believe in and get involved.
00:20:00.000Because I tell you, once you take that first step and you get in, it'll be the best decision you ever made and it'll take over your whole life.
00:20:09.000If I listened to every single swamp creature in Washington, D.C. who told me to sit down, shut up, and wait my turn, I would not be sitting up here with a winning campaign going to flip one of the most competitive districts in this country on our way to saving our country.
00:20:27.000Ana Paulina, Anthony Sabatini, Caroline Levitt at Turning Point Action, which is Turning Point USA sister organization we're hosting this afternoon.
00:20:36.000We are here to transform the Republican Party into a party that fights and then holds our elected leaders accountable.
00:20:43.000We need to make sure the America First movement that Donald Trump started continues and that we prioritize the American people and that we have a Republican Party that understands what we're up against.
00:20:54.000You just heard from three incredible leaders, and that's a little snapshot, everybody, of what is to come.
00:20:59.000If the old Republican Party is watching, your time is up.